A 32-year-old man accused of disciplining a 12-year-old boy by sexually assaulting him is on trial at Reading Crown Court.

Sally Hobson, prosecuting, said the boy had described how Victor Seymour “d*** slapped” him by hitting him in the face and head with his penis as a punishment.

Seymour whose current address is Bullingdon Prison faces two counts of sexual assault relating to “d*** slapping” incidents between December 2010 and April 2012 when the boy was aged 12 and three counts of sexual assault between the same dates involved gripping the same boy by the testicles.

He also faces one count of sexually assaulting a 10-year-old girl by touching her breast and stomach and another of inciting the same girl to give him oral sex for money.

Seymour denies all the charges which all took place in the Burghfield area.

Miss Hobson told the jury on Tuesday, April 14, the investigation had followed a court case in 2014 in which Seymour had pleaded guilty to inciting another girl aged under 13-year into sexual activity by sending her a text which said “Suck my d***”.

She said it was the prosecution’s case that Seymour had sent a similar message to the 10-year-old girl in this case in which he said “I’ll give you £1 if you suck my d***”.

The were also messages, according to Miss Hobson, calling the girl “bitch” and “whore” - all of which have been deleted.

However, Miss Hobson said the texts had been seen by the girl’s father.

She said the case in which Seymour had pleaded guilty “was the trigger” which led to an investigation into the matters involving the 10 year-old girl and 12-year-old boy which had not been up by the authorities previously.

She said when the girl was interviewed, she described the sexual assault and the text message to police.

The girl said she had gone into a bedroom where Seymour was doing some DIY and had touched her “just under her right breast moving his hand down to her stomach”. The girl slapped his hand away and it was the only occasion when it happened.

Miss Hobson said when the boy was interviewed he described several incidents when Seymour had sexually assaulted him “as a punishment”. He used the term “d*** slap” to describe two of the sexual assaults.

He told police Seymour had gripped his testicles on “about three occasions”.

Miss Hobson said: “He [the boy] said it was a form of discipline. The prosecution say it was a sexual assault on each and every occasion.”